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IDC: US Tech Firms Underestimate Emerging Market Opportunity

Paul Gillin

These “green field” markets are building IT infrastructures around mobile technologies, adopting social media for content distribution and investing in “smart cities” at a faster rate than mature markets, Ng said. IDC Forecast. By 2018, those countries will outstrip the US on IT spending by nearly $100 billion.

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Know Thy Customer

Paul Gillin

The series is underwritten by IBM, but the content is entirely my own. That forecasting, operations research, data mining, data integration, reporting and statistics. Will new tools make analytics accessible to the common business person in the same way that spreadsheets made forecasting, accessible?

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Social Marketing Hangover

Paul Gillin

A few of my more passionate social marketing friends contacted me and asked politely if I had lost my mind or something for issuing such a gloomy and pessimistic forecast at precisely the hour of social media’s triumph. These companies have got half of the equation right: They’re producing solid content.

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Oracle’s Updated Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

Your participation in any video related to Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors; whether you create a video to post or link to on your blog, you contribute content for a video, or you appear in a video created either by another Oracle employee or by a third party.

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Oracle’s Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

Your participation in any video related to Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors; whether you create a video to post or link to on your blog, you contribute content for a video, or you appear in a video created either by another Oracle employee or by a third party.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

Her response: “When [our target audiences comes] to our site, they watch the videos and they are engaging with the content on the site. These are two simple examples, but they both require confident forecasting based upon accurate historical data. However, you can’t forecast the future without understanding the past.

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Live Blog: Lotusphere 2012 Opening Session

Paul Gillin

Improve forecasting effectiveness. “Do you ever wonder who are the most active members of your communities or what content is most popular? Content can be organized by various views, including a paper.li -like custom news page and topical filtering. Leverage skills and distribute workload. ” The Demos Begin. .